She was the winner of five Tony Awards, her Broadway debut was in 1957 in Hotel Paradiso, followed by A Taste of Honey (1960), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), and in Mame (1966), winning her first Tony.After a 23-year hiatus, she returned to Broadway in Deuce (2007) followed by Blithe Spirit (2009) winning a fifth Tony; A Little Night Music (2010), The Best Man (2012).Her father, Edgar Isaac Lansbury, was a timber merchant.At age ten, Angela saw John Gielgud as "Hamlet" at the Old Vic and vowed that someday she would become an actress.She attended the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art in London."